Ruairí Ó Meadhra, Christian Fleury, Bertrand Guelat, Francesco Venturoni
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Abstract
A distillation concept is described to process organic and aqueous waste streams from an oligonucleotide process to regenerate 85% of acetonitrile contained in the wastes, for reintroduction back into the oligonucleotide process. Careful selection of the streams to send to regeneration based on their acetonitrile content was shown to simplify the number of processing steps and minimize the size of the equipment required for regeneration. Availability of accurate vapor–liquid equilibrium data was shown to be key to designing the number of processing steps, the operating conditions, and calculating purification performance. A modified classical two-column distillation pressure swing dewatering system with an intermediate-pressure column for the separation of light boilers, was shown to effectively purify and dewater acetonitrile to the required specifications. Aspen Plus software was used to generate vapor–liquid equilibrium (VLE) data and simulate process alternatives.
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The journal Organic Process Research & Development serves as a communication tool between industrial chemists and chemists working in universities and research institutes. As such, it reports original work from the broad field of industrial process chemistry but also presents academic results that are relevant, or potentially relevant, to industrial applications. Process chemistry is the science that enables the safe, environmentally benign and ultimately economical manufacturing of organic compounds that are required in larger amounts to help address the needs of society. Consequently, the Journal encompasses every aspect of organic chemistry, including all aspects of catalysis, synthetic methodology development and synthetic strategy exploration, but also includes aspects from analytical and solid-state chemistry and chemical engineering, such as work-up tools,process safety, or flow-chemistry. The goal of development and optimization of chemical reactions and processes is their transfer to a larger scale; original work describing such studies and the actual implementation on scale is highly relevant to the journal. However, studies on new developments from either industry, research institutes or academia that have not yet been demonstrated on scale, but where an industrial utility can be expected and where the study has addressed important prerequisites for a scale-up and has given confidence into the reliability and practicality of the chemistry, also serve the mission of OPR&D as a communication tool between the different contributors to the field.